Michael Hill International Violin Competition, with pianist Jeonghwan Kim, winner of the 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition. A Winners' Recital. Includes Camille Saint-Saëns' Violin Sonata No.1 and Giuseppe Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, with Gillian Whitehead's Bright Silence, Ysaye Sonata 5, and more. Yeyeong Jenny Jin - first prize at the 2023 Michael Hill International Violin Competition; also winner of the Chamber Music Prize; and winner of the Sheila Smith Prize granting a three-year loan of an exquisite Domenico Montagnana violin, c.1735 – 39, facilitated through the Rare Violins of New York Consortium. Jenny is accompanied by pianist Jeonghwan Kim, winner of the 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition.

The Super Deluxe Edition includes three previously unreleased session outtakes (four in total) and two CDs are devoted to presenting the complete 14-track performance of the Hammersmith Odeon concert on 27 April 1977.
After the guest-star-drenched No Reason to Cry failed to make much of an impact commercially, Eric Clapton returned to using his own band for Slowhand. The difference is substantial - where No Reason to Cry struggled hard to find the right tone, Slowhand opens with the relaxed, bluesy shuffle of J.J. Cale's "Cocaine" and sustains it throughout the course of the album. Alternating between straight blues ("Mean Old Frisco"), country ("Lay Down Sally"), mainstream rock ("Cocaine," "The Core"), and pop ("Wonderful Tonight"), Slowhand doesn't sound schizophrenic because of the band's grasp of the material. This is laid-back virtuosity - although Clapton and his band are never flashy, their playing is masterful and assured…

In the '70s, harmonica man Billy Branch was one of the young upstarts helping to keep the Chicago blues sound alive; in the 21st century, he's matured into one of the Windy City's most venerable blues talents, and as a musician and educator, Branch has spread the word about the blues across the country and around the world. Branch has led the Sons of Blues, his backing band, since the mid-'70s, and despite numerous personnel changes, the SOBs have never wavered in their dedication to pure, unadulterated Chicago blues.

Despite his age, 25, Sebastiaan Visser is already a household name among jazz fusion guitar aficionados in the Netherlands, known for his rich sound and energetic playing. He is part of a new emerging generation of jazz musicians, who musically think outside the box. Nevertheless, fusion is his great passion, and he finds inspiration in jazz-rock icons like Allan Holdworth and John McLaughlin. “Always There” is his 2nd album with Deborah Slijkhuis on electric bass and Sebastiaan Cornelissen/Christopher Verweij on drums and Igor Herstel/Matthijs Geerts on keys. Guest is Sean Freeman on tenor sax.

Deep Purple De Britse band Deep Purple ziet het levenslicht in de nadagen van de psychedelische pop. De groep wordt in 1967 opgericht en bereikt in de jaren zeventig de inmiddels legendarische line up bestaande uit Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan en Jon Lord. De formatie laat de psychedelische invloeden snel achter zich en zet in op een sound die dan ongehoord hard is. Daarmee legt Deep Purple de blauwdruk voor veel latere hard rock- en metal-bands. Gedurende de decennia verandert de groepssamenstelling veelvuldig, maar blijft de band wel bestaan. In 2021 is Deep Purple toe aan het 22ste studioalbum dat de titel Turning to Crime meekrijgt.

Robin Trower is an English rock guitarist who achieved success with Procol Harum throughout 1967-1971 and then as a solo artist. He issued many charting albums on Chrysalis Records in the 1970s. He also released 2 albums on Atlantic Records in the 1980s, Take What You Need & In The Line Of Fire. Our 2 CD set features a rare bonus track, a live version of "Shattered".

At the head of a luxury trio, Simon Chivallon—the most lyrical pianist of the new generation—magnifies his love of jazz in the service of song. Enriched on half of the tracks with subtle arrangements for string quartet, his Personal Songbook navigates with equal joy from Brassens and Nougaro to Broadway standards, from English pop to bebop, from Billy Strayhorn to bossa nova, revealing a constant freshness of inspiration, an obvious generosity in his playing, and an absolutely irresistible swing. A talent is born.

Great compilation for those who appreciate the different faces of rock music, from the gentler, the more pop through the independent to the hardcore, hard rock. 80 songs recorded on the four CDs.

To escape the loneliness and the winters in Moscow, Tchaikovsky traveled endlessly, crossing Europe in search of rare freedom. His stays in Paris and Florence resulted in the composition of two chamber music masterpieces – the moving String Quartet no. 3 and the celebrated string sextet titled “Souvenir de Florence”. The composer’s sensitive soul is revealed through the poetry of these works, brought to life by the Modigliani Quartet and their esteemed colleagues.

‘Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Three Intermezzi Op. 117‘ with Francesco Piemontesi, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Manfred Honeck is due for release in September 2025 on PENTATONE.

‘No!’ exclaims Nunciata, the stubborn Corsican grandmother, when she is begged to put an end to the vendetta between her family, the Fabiani, and their enemies, the Pietra Nera clan. Set against a backdrop of tragic deaths, voracious lust for vengeance and passionate love at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, this ‘lyric drama’ composed by Saint-Saëns in 1906 was premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and dedicated to Prince Albert I, who had commissioned it. Saint-Saëns demonstrates here the full range of his style, interweaving Debussyan chords, melodic lines à la Massenet and aggressive rhythms worthy of Prokofiev. Above all, he displays a feel for the theatre eminently characteristic of French opera, and one can only imagine how successful this score would be if it found its way back onto the stage. It was not without reason that after its triumphant premiere in Monte Carlo, L’Ancêtre was staged in several cities in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany, as well as Algiers (February 1911) and Cairo (February 1912), before two further performances in March 1915 in the theatre where it had come into existence.

Recorded June 13, 1963 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. The Eastern Moods of Ahmed Abdul-Malik is an album by the double bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik that was released through Prestige Records label in November 1963.

On what would have been B.B. King’s 100th birthday – Joe Bonamassa has announced the upcoming release of B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100, produced by Grammy-nominated duo Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith, an extraordinary collaborative tribute album celebrating the legacy of one of music’s most iconic figures. Out via KTBA Records, the project launches with the release of its first five tracks and a promise of more to come in the months ahead. A total of 32 songs will be released in monthly installments through February 2026, culminating in the arrival of the full digital album as well as the Double CD and Triple LP Vinyl on February 6th, 2026.

The 1958 version of the Jazz Messengers were widely recorded during their stay in Paris, but this LP does not duplicate any of the other recordings previously released. This band (with trumpeter Lee Morgan, Benny Golson on tenor, and pianist Bobby Timmons) was particularly strong, and it is quite enjoyable to hear them stretch out on such songs as "I Remember Clifford," "Moanin'," "Blues March," and "Whisper Not." Hard bop at its best, all of it propelled by the powerful drumming of Art Blakey.

German progressive rockers Grobschnitt took a major leap forward on their second album, 1974's "Ballermann". While the ambitious, double-length release featured a fair amount of eccentric drummer/ringmaster Eroc's trademark goofy, Monty Python-esque clowning, the Krautrockers also took a definitive leap from jammy rock to a full-blown symphonic-progressive style, with the 33 1/2-minute "Solar Music" suite, one of German prog's masterworks, which would also be memorably revisited on their 1978 Solar Music Live album.